Sugar and Chronic Disease

Posted by Cynthia Howard RN, CNC, PhD in Fatigue, Weight Loss, Wellbeing on October 28th, 2009 | no responses

How much sugar do you think you take in every day? The SUGGESTED healthy amount is around 12 teaspoons for a person consuming 1600 calories. This is most women. Just for kicks add up the gms of sugar listed on labels for the next 24 hours. If you eat fast food, find out how much is in there. Do you know there is sugar on those fries?

If you think you aren’t addicted – then try giving up anything that has any sugar on the label! You will know when you see what happens WITHOUT IT!

Once you start reading labels, you will realize EVERYTHING has added sugar! Most of the time, the sweetners are multiplied with not only sugar but one or SEVERAL of these: corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, acesulfame K, maltose and you may even see aspartame and splenda just to make it that much sweeter without the calories.

One of our new member gifts is a booklet, How sweet is it? that outlines all sweetners to clarify risks, claims and benefits.

Ya think America is hooked on sugar?

Here are some facts:

US is No. 1 IN THE WORLD for Chronic Degenerative Disease. That is right, we top every single country, Third World or otherwise for chronic disease. These are LIFESTYLE diseases. We are not even in the top 30 for health! Somewhere BELOW Ethiopia.

We eat LESS potatoes, breads that our grandparents and we are fattter and sicker than they ever were.

Where or where is my Cinnabon, Pretzel Annie, Brownie Surprise and Funnel Cake?

We consume Sodas to the exclusion of water and FRESH juice. Ok, so a little caffeine never hurt anyone? Wrong again, in children there are problems with caffeine and the artificial stimulation has further contributed to the chronic stress, attention and focus problems maxing out the adrenal glands and packing on the pounds around everyone’s middle.

Here are just a few of the conditions that would benefit TREMENDOUSLY from a decrease in sugar consumption.

Arthritis,
Fatigue,
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
Weight gain
Heart Disease
Diabetes

The average American, man, woman and child consumes over 200 lbs of sugar per year! In the 1800′s it was only a few TEASPOONS!!!

Sugar creates its own addiction. The more you eat, the more you want. There are reasons for this not th eleast of which is yeast overgrowth.

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